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Describing a topic without understanding it is dangerous. Do Not Attempt. An ad shows a man walking out of his house, diving off a cliff, and parachuting into his car. At the bottom of the screen? "Do Not Attempt." Often co-starring with the world's favorite disclaimer: "Dramatization". Ads for cars or automotive products will often elaborate on this with "Professional driver on a closed course". Usually the disclaimer for these is pretty clearly tongue-in-cheek. All the same, it helps to cover your butt, just in case. Compare Don't Try This at Home, which differs from this trope in that it is about fundamentally real (albeit dangerous) stunts, whereas this trope concerns activities that are clearly not demonstrating real features or uses of the product but are there to serve the Rule of Funny or the Rule of Cool (e.g., driving your SUV underwater, towing a freight locomotive with your pickup, etc.) Also compare Do Not Do This Cool Thing, when warnings ring hollow. |
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The TV commercial for Rock Band had a CGI sequence showing a band playing a song while on top of a moving car that was going at a high rate of speed, and then proceeding to jump off the car onto a nearby RV also moving at a high rate of speed, all while the words DO NOT ATTEMPT stayed at the bottom of the screen. | |
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Every episode of the Cromartie High School anime adaptation began with a scene of the protagonist alone in a jail cell, with a warning that imitating the show's antics would net one a similar fate. | |
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Several incidents in the Hayate the Combat Butler manga have included the disclaimer, "Good boys and girls should never do this." | |
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It was subsequently parodied in DCTV's "Happy Red Matter Ball" sketch. | |
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Leliana of Dragon Age: Origins was The Bard (essentially the game's code for spy/assassin) and she was betrayed, captured, tortured and (heavily implied) raped for it and tried to leave that life behind. By Inquisition she is a super bard/The Spymaster, conflicted, jaded, and can be asked about it. Leliana may even offer to teach you, which leads to a completely unromanticized portrayal of bard life with her strongly hinting not to become one. | |
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In one chapter of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, the titular disciple is being trained to deflect blades by practicing with fluorescent lights, with his masters reasoning that a strike that would break a light against him is equal to a sword strike that would deliver a deadly wound. Included in the first panel where he gets a light broken over his head: "(Note) This is done under the guidance of masters. It's dangerous. Never ever should you attempt this." And in the next panel (where he's getting hit again): "(Note) Seriously, don't do it." | |
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A Snickers commercial that had a bunch of guys riding ATVs and goofing off with Godzilla (who's suddenly only a bit larger than human-sized) displayed this warning. Then again, driving around in a hot desert in a rubber monster costume would be unhealthy. A 2005 Russian commercial for Snickers showed guys jumping from roofs and snowboarding on frozen channels of Saint-Petersburg near the famous buildings like Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood and Saint Isaac's Cathedral, while the text on the bottom of the screen says "Do not attemp it yourself. It's not possible". |
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The older commercials for the telecommunications company Vonage featured people doing Jackass-style stupid things, followed by a text that said. "People do stupid things. Paying too much for phone service shouldn't be one of them." They always had a this disclaimer at the bottom of the screen. Vonage is still around, but they have since replaced these with more...mature and reserved commercials. | |
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The Saturday Night Live trope-naming commercial parody "Happy Fun Ball" spoofed this trope by offering "the toy sensation that's sweeping the nation!" The bulk of the "commercial" was then spent disclosing increasingly strange and worrisome information, including a caution that if the core was exposed the active ingredients should not be "touched, inhaled, or looked at", as well as giving the famous warning "Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball!" It was subsequently parodied in DCTV's "Happy Red Matter Ball" sketch. |
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One episode of Panda Z had Pan and his grandfather trying to eat batteries (they're both robots), with Panda Z growing more and more frustrated by his inability to actually grab the batteries to eat with any known utensil. At the bottom of the screen, a continuous ticker crawl plays under the scene with helpful warnings like "Do Not Eat Batteries. Do Not Cut Batteries With a Knife. Do Not Smash Batteries. Batteries are not Edible." | |
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Aerosmith's "Amazing" music video has as its core concept two young lovers enjoying a virtual reality rendezvous. This includes the woman riding on the back of a motorcycle being driven by the man. Soon enough, the former party climbs around the still-moving motorcycle to straddle her partner face-to-face, removes both of their helmets and commences high-speed coitus. This actually aired on MTV with no disclaimer for a couple of weeks before the scene was almost completely obscured by a giant blinking message reading "ONLY SAFE IN CYBERSPACE". | |
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The Goon Show: During a sequence when three characters are climbing up to a high window by standing on each other's shoulders, each person at the bottom climbs up to the top in turn, relying on gravity not noticing what they're doing: | |
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